D. Elementary Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 8:00am

Speaker 1

Brother

Milk

Shower

Speaker 2

Bucket

Ginger

Tunnel

Speaker 3

Jacket

Socks

Senator

Speaker 4

Monkey

Whisker

Smoke

Speaker 5

Saxophone

Swimming pool

Toes

Speaker 6

Mother

Stadium

Smile

Speaker 7

Heels

Lighter

Koala

Round 2 - 9:30am

Speaker 1

Opportunity

Dishonesty

Tolerance

Speaker 2

speculation

Horror

Clarity

Speaker 3

forgiveness

self-discipline

Delight

Speaker 4

Union

Speed

Wit

Speaker 5

Solitude

Advantage

Silliness

Speaker 6

Pride

Patience

Trust

Speaker 7

Movement

Maturity

Deceit

Round 3 - 10:45am

Speaker 1

Use it or lose it.

Earth is the queen of beds. --Namibian proverb

Don't miss opportunities: time doesn't come round again. --Chinese Proverb

Speaker 2

Look before you leap

Family shames must not be spread abroad. --Chinese Proverb

Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away. --Chinese Proverb

Speaker 3

Two wrongs don’t make a right

Good bargains empty the purse.

Like people, like priest.

Speaker 4

May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live. --Irish proverb

Timely return of a loan makes it easier to borrow a second time. --Chinese Proverb

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

 

Speaker 5

Every dog has its day

Let sleeping dogs lie.

No shortcuts exist to the top of a palm tree. --African Proverb

Speaker 6

If you snooze, you lose.

Beggars can’t be choosers.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Speaker 7

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was. --Irish proverb

Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend. --Senegalese proverb

Finals - 12:15pm

Speaker 1

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. --William Shakespeare

Your focus determines your reality. --Qui-Gon Jinn, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. --Albert Einstein

Speaker 2

It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. --Fred Rogers

"For society is nothing but collaboration." --— Ludwig von Mises

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? --Benjamin Disraeli

Speaker 3

"When a bubble's gone, you don't see it anymore with your eyes. And when an opera is over, you don't hear it anymore with your ears. But you can remember it, and you’ll always have them with you in your memory.” --— Fred Rogers

Even miracles take a little time --Pinocchio

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. --Fred Rogers

Speaker 4

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. --Alice Walker

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind s made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. --Rosa Parks

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means. --Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 5

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. --Fred Rogers

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. --Anne Frank

"The audience loves a slow thinker.” --— Buster Keaton

Speaker 6

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers. --Fred Rogers

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. --Benjamin Franklin

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people. --Warren Buffett